Personal Data - Born December 12, 1951, in
Ottawa, Kansas, but considers Salina, Kansas, to be his hometown.
Married to the former Eileen M. Keegan of Redondo Beach, California.
He enjoys basketball, softball, golf, running, playing bridge, and
umpiring. His parents, Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Hawley, reside in
Surprise, Arizona. Her mother, Mrs. Jo Keegan, resides in Houston,
Texas.

Education - Graduated from Salina
(Central) High School, Salina, Kansas, in 1969; received bachelor of
arts degrees in physics and astronomy (graduating with highest
distinction) from the University of Kansas in 1973, and a doctor of
philosophy in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of
California in 1977.

Organizations - Member of the American
Astronomical Society, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Sigma Pi Sigma,
and Phi Beta Kappa.

Experience - Hawley attended the
University of Kansas, majoring in physics and astronomy. He spent
three summers employed as a research assistant: 1972 at the U.S.
Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., and 1973 and 1974 at the
National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. He
attended graduate school at Lick Observatory, University of
California, Santa Cruz. His research involved spectrophotometry of
gaseous nebulae and emission-line galaxies with particular emphasis
on chemical abundance determinations for these objects. The results
of his research have been published in major astronomical journals.
Prior to his selection by NASA in 1978, Hawley was a post-doctoral
research associate at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in La
Serena, Chile.

NASA Experience - Dr. Hawley was selected
as a NASA astronaut in January 1978. Prior to STS-1, he served as a
simulator pilot for software checkout at the Shuttle Avionics
Integration Laboratory (SAIL). For STS-2, STS-3, and STS-4, he was a
member of the astronaut support crew at Kennedy Space Center,
Florida, for Orbiter test and checkout, and also served as prime
close-out crewman for STS-3 and STS-4. During 1984-1985, he was
Technical Assistant to the Director, Flight Crew Operations. From
1987-1990, he was the Deputy Chief of the Astronaut Office. In June
1990, he left the Astronaut Office to assume the post of Associate
Director of NASA's Ames Research Center in California. In August
1992, he returned to the Johnson Space Center as Deputy Director of
Flight Crew Operations. Dr. Hawley was returned to astronaut flight
status in February 1996. He served on the second Hubble Space
Telescope mission and returned to duty as Deputy Director, Flight
Crew Operations. A veteran of five space flights (STS-41D in 1984,
STS-61C in 1986, STS-31 in 1990, STS-82 in 1997 and STS-93 in 1999),
Dr. Hawley has logged 32 days in space.

Space Flight Experience - A veteran of
five space flights, Dr. Hawley has logged a total of 770hours and 27
minutes in space. He served as a mission specialist on STS-41D in
1984, STS-61C in 1986, STS-31 in 1990, STS-82 in 1997 and STS-93 in
1999.

STS-41D (August 30 to September 5, 1984) was launched from the
Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and returned to land at Edwards Air
Force Base, California. This was the maiden flight of the Space
Shuttle Discovery. During the 7-day mission the crew successfully
activated the OAST-1 solar cell wing experiment, deployed the SBS-D,
SYNCOM IV-2, and TELSTAR 3-C satellites, operated the CFES-III
experiment, the student crystal growth experiment, as well as
photography experiments using the IMAX motion picture camera. The
mission was completed in 96 orbits of the Earth in 144 hours and 57
minutes.

STS-61C (January 12-18, 1986) was launched from the Kennedy Space
Center, Florida, and returned to a night landing at Edwards Air Force
Base, California. During the 6-day flight of Columbia the crew
deployed the SATCOM KU satellite and conducted experiments in
astrophysics and materials processing. Mission duration was 146 hours
and 03 minutes.

STS-31 ( April 24-29, 1990) was launched from the Kennedy Space
Center in Florida, and also returned to land at Edwards Air Force
Base, California. During the 5-day mission, the crew deployed the
Hubble Space Telescope, and conducted a variety of middeck
experiments involving the study of protein crystal growth, polymer
membrane processing, and the effects of weightlessness and magnetic
fields on an ion arc. They also operated a variety of cameras,
including both the IMAX in-cabin and cargo bay cameras, for Earth
observations from their record-setting altitude of 380 miles. The
mission was completed in 76 orbits of the earth in 121 hours.

STS-82 (February 11-21, 1997) the second Hubble Space Telescope
(HST) maintenance mission, was launched at night and returned to a
night landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. During the flight,
Dr. Hawley's primary role was to operate the Shuttle's 50-foot robot
arm to retrieve and redeploy the HST following completion of upgrades
and repairs. Dr. Hawley also operated the robot arm during five space
walks in which two teams installed two new spectrometers and eight
replacement instruments. They also replaced insulation patches over
three compartments containing key data processing, electronics and
scientific instrument telemetry packages. HST was then redeployed and
boosted to a higher orbit. The flight was completed in 149 orbits
covering 3.8 million miles in 9 days, 23 hours, 37 minutes.

STS-93 Columbia (July 22-27, 1999) was launched from the Kennedy
Space Center on a 5-day mission returning to KSC for the 12th night
landing in the Shuttle Program's history. Dr. Hawley served as
Columbia's flight engineer. The primary mission objective was the
successful deployment of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the third of
NASA's Great Observatories after Hubble Space Telescope and the
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. Dr. Hawley also served as the primary
operator of a second telescope carried in the crew module which was
used for several days to make broadband ultraviolet observations of a
variety of solar system objects. The mission completed 79 orbits in 4
days, 22 hours, and 50 minutes.